SQL Agent Alerts - Severity Condition is NOT "greater than or equal to"
I ran into some bad training that had convinced a client sys admin that the SQL Agent Alerts had the...
2012-08-20
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SQLSaturday #164 – Cleveland – Touchdown!!
SQLSaturday #164 is in the books and the months of work and planning that went into putting this event together...
2012-08-20
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Another Execution Plan… In the Cloud!
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how different execution plans look when using the Azure Management Portal. I...
2012-08-23 (first published: 2012-08-20)
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8 Habits/Skills/Traits of Highly Effective DBAs
The whole “7 Habits” title is so cliché so I decided to make it eight! Plus that will probably relieve...
2012-08-20
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Why I Like My Job – #Meme15
A while back, Kevin Conan (Blog | @ConanTheCDN) emailed me about this months #meme15 topic. He thought it would be good...
2012-08-20
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Status Reports
I like a good status report. It may contain a few sentences or a page full of data and gauges,...
2012-08-20
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PASS Virtual Chapter August presentations
If you do not know by now, PASS has many virtual chapters that give free webcasts all month long. I...
2012-08-19
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Boyce - Codd Normal Form (BCNF)
Boyce - Codd Normal Form (BCNF) :- A normal form is said to be a Boyce - Codd Normal Form if it is in...
2012-08-19
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Isolation levels in SQL Server
Isolation levels :- Isolation level is required to isolate a resource and protect it from other transactions. This is achieved with...
2012-08-19
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Would You Listen To The Steve & Andy Radio Show?
My friend Steve Jones and I have talked every week for a long time, close to ten years now. On...
2012-08-18
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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